The leaker came forward:
Facebook Whistleblower Frances Haugen: The 60 Minutes Interview (13m36s video)
Facebook's new whistleblower is renewing scrutiny of the social media giant
A data scientist named Frances Haugen has revealed herself to be the whistleblower behind a massive exposure of the inner workings at Facebook.
Prior to appearing on 60 Minutes on Sunday, Haugen, a former employee at the social media giant, kept her identity a secret after sharing thousands of pages of internal Facebook documents to the media and federal law enforcement.
[...] Haugen's document dump, her testimony scheduled in front of Congress this week, and an ongoing investigative reporting series into the company are potentially pushing Facebook into its biggest crisis yet. The negative spotlight also comes as Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill are increasingly scrutinizing Facebook's actions.
Facebook Inc. knows, in acute detail, that its platforms are riddled with flaws that cause harm, often in ways only the company fully understands. That is the central finding of a Wall Street Journal series, based on a review of internal Facebook documents, including research reports, online employee discussions and drafts of presentations to senior management.
Time and again, the documents show, Facebook's researchers have identified the platform's ill effects. Time and again, despite congressional hearings, its own pledges and numerous media exposés, the company didn't fix them. The documents offer perhaps the clearest picture thus far of how broadly Facebook's problems are known inside the company, up to the chief executive himself.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 06 2021, @03:12PM
What a 'leaker' suddenly pops up and says exactly what the establishment wants her to say. Suddenly she is front page on every news org out there. But oh no she is totally credible.
I am calling shenanigans and going to get my broom. This looks like a joe job, and a decently coordinated one at that to push a reason to kick more people off the internet.
But you are right I expect a lot of harumph and nothing done.